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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of its AWS Wavelength multi-access edge compute (MEC) service in the UK, on Vodafone’s 5G network. The setup embeds AWS compute …

Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has opened its first Open RAN (O-RAN) Collaboration and Testing Center at its offices in Dallas, Texas. The new facility is designed to support …

American Tower Corporation and global insurer and investment firm Allianz, announced that Allianz Capital Partners and the Allianz European Infrastructure Fund, will acquire a 10% stake in ATC Europe. The …

Currently, Rogers’ 5G services are available in more than 700 communities in Canada Rogers Communications is bringing 5G to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The network, built with help from Ericsson, is …

Anritsu and InterDigital have combined on a new smart factory demo to showcase the “feasibility and readiness” of carrier-led 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) for Industry 4.0 use cases.  …

The Canadian government kicked off on June 15 an auction of 5G frequencies, a process that had been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tender will award licenses to …

US private cellular provider Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, has issued more than seven million shares in a public offering to raise $47 million for “working capital and general …

Anterix has followed deals with Motorola and Nokia with a third contract for LTE equipment for private network deployments in the utilities sector, this time with Swedish vendor Ericsson. The …

Spanish operator Telefonica awarded contracts to roll out its 5G Standalone (SA) radio networks to Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia, local business newspaper Expansion reported. According to the report Chinese …

For the first time, Verizon gave the keynote address at E3, one of the biggest gaming expos in the world Advanced technologies like 5G and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are …

Telenor Norway and Ericsson have entered into a joint innovation cooperation to create new 5G-powered opportunities in areas such as entertainment, autonomous transport, smart factories and remote healthcare. “5G is …

Household appliances and electronics manufacturer Arçelik Global, owners of the Beko and Grundig brands, is to deploy the first private celluar network in Turkey, as an LTE-based setup with a …

Samsung will provide 5G equipment for 2,500 rural sites in the south-west of England and Wales Samsung has made significant headway in the European telecommunications market with its new Vodafone …

“The business models are extremely complex and there is a lot of risk embedded in this,” says Nsight’s Brighid Riordan Brighid Riordan is the CINO and VP of Emerging Services …

UK-based carrier Vodafone has selected Dell, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies to jointly deliver the first commercial deployment of Open Radio Access Network (RAN) in …

Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has recently announced that its commercial 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) now supports its latest C-Band Massive MIMO radios. In a release, the company also said it …

Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, NC, where Carolina heat and humidity have descended, causing daily afternoon storms like the one pictured nearby.  This week, we will focus the entire issue …

IBM expects unprecedented 5G hypergrowth to begin around mid-decade, and the decisions made by CSPs today are critical The cloud hyperscaler dominance over legacy media companies has been making headlines …

German operator Deutsche Telekom said that its 5G service based on 3.6GHz frequency is already available in around 50 cities across the country, where the telco already deployed over 1,800 …

The number of announced 5G devices has surpassed 800 for the first time and now stands at 822 announced 5G devices, according to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). This …

Previously, Telenor Bulgaria had only conducted 5G trials On Thursday, Telenor Bulgaria officially launched its 5G network in more than 60 locations across the country, living up to its previous …

AT&T is claiming a C Band first, saying that it has successfully completed 5G field test calls using test devices and a Mobile Test Platform at locations in Plano, Texas …

Verizon Business CRO describes private 5G and MEC as like “peanut butter and jelly” Today Verizon Business announced its new private 5G network offering, On Site 5G, which is being …

The Finnish 6G Flagship research program coordinated by the University of Oulu and the Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications have signed an agreement …

Telecom Italia (TIM) launched an Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC), a lab dedicated to testing Open RAN solutions, the telco said in a release. The new “TIM European OTIC …